and your point is?????
what I see is politicians more worried about re-election than anything else. It's awfully convenient to bring up the lightning rod issues during election time and then forget about them after being re-elected.
THAT is my point, and if you don't see that these politicians are just playing you then you aren't paying attention. I'm fed with with the entire Congress. I just want to see some !@#$ get done
Of course, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm truly sorry that you've become so terribly impatient with the political process which, by its nature in our system, tends to work slowly. Its participants do tend to focus on getting elected and reelected and when they are in office they have to do a great deal of partnering and horse trading to get as many of the issues they believe in enacted into law. I think that more "!@#$" gets done more rapidly in political processes based on a totalitarian model but, apart from getting the trains to run on time, much of the "!@#$ they accomplish is not to everyone's liking.
By the way, 31 interesting and literate posts since you joined FR on June 27th is great. Thank you and, if no one has welcomed you earlier, let me be the first.